“National Geographic Ex plorer,” which most recently aired on MSNBC, has found a new home – on, where else? – National Geographic Channel.

The show, hosted on MSNBC by Lisa Ling, will move to NGC with a new season pre miering early next winter. MSNBC will air Ling’s “Ultimate Ex plorer” through August be fore premieiring “MSNBC Adventurer” on Sunday nights.

It’s not clear, yet, if Ling will make the move to NGC along with the show.

“Lisa Ling has been a great asset to the show, along with the entire ‘Explorer’ team,” NGC president Laureen Ong said yesterday. “We are thrilled that the show is com ing home to the National Geographic Channel, how ever we have only just se cured the rights and first need to focus on how to evolve the series to become a cornerstone of the network.

“Part of this evaluation will be determining how we will best utilize all of ‘Explorer’s’ assets, including the corre spondents, and we expect to have those question an swered in the very near future.”